netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: avoid a full fib lookup when rp

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 05:00:33 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: avoid a full fib lookup when rp_filter is
 disabled.

On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 12:46 +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
..

> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> ---

> +/* called under RCU lock */
> +struct in_ifaddr *inet_lookup_ifaddr_rcu(struct net *net, __be32 addr)
> +{
> +	u32 hash = inet_addr_hash(net, addr);
> +	struct in_ifaddr *ifa;
> +
> +	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(ifa, &inet_addr_lst[hash], hash)
> +		if (ifa->ifa_local == addr &&
> +		    net_eq(dev_net(ifa->ifa_dev->dev), net))
> +			return ifa;
> +
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +

Any particular reason you do not use this helper to replace the lookup
in __ip_dev_find() ?

In this case, copy paste can be avoided, please avoid a future patch
consolidating the things...

Thanks.